He got a contract as a human guinea pig with some labs that experimented with sleep serum extracted from the african tse-tse fly, known to have caused permanent sleep to some of it's victims. It was stipulated that he would be paid for every single hour he slept. The entire family made sure no one disturbed him in any way, to the extreme of silencing every telephone around. Now this might sound like they were doing it for the money,but such was not the case. The fact is awake he was unbearable.